Exchange Experience with France Youth Group and Re-Planting Mangrove Trees at Tropaing Sangke Fishery Community

On 29 July 2011, Youth Association for Human Resource Development (YAHRD) were held meeting, sharing experience with a volunteer youth group from France and youth group from Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture (MJC) Kampot Province. There are 50 participants were participated and planted 150 mangrove trees in the Tropaing Sangke Fishery Community in Kampot Province, Cambodia.

The purpose of the meeting and mangrove planting is :

To promote friendship, mutual understanding and sharing experiences among YAHRD members and volunteer youth from France.

To planting the mangrove tree for seeing bio diversity in the community

To built up youth understanding of community development activities and natural resources importance.

To inspire youth to become involved in social development activities.

Participants share the feelings about the planting mangrove tree activity:

Mr. Orm Mithuna, currently studying 4th Years as CUS university Kampot branch. He said about feeling that:I’m really happy and very interested when I conducted the meeting, sharing experience with a volunteer youth group from France and planting mangrove trees in the Tropaing Sangke fishery community, before I never participated in an event like this.Mr. Thuna was said continued that:Today I have a chance to know new friend and I has planted mangrove 10 tree and the mangrove tree is a sea of bio diversity in this community. Moreover, I hope that when YAHRD group organize the new activity for help societies or sharing experience at the next time I will conduct more and will be having a lot of youth participate the event also.